We go where no one has thought to go before. Our 24-times-a-year-21st-century-approach publication, The Enlightened Voter, is the only one of its kind in the United States.

Because readers of The Enlightened Voter have proven to vote significantly better than non-readers, in the long run we envision a local version of The Enlightened Voter delivered to every progressive voter’s inbox in America.

46.9% of Americans Didn't Vote in 2016!

Those non-voters elected Lyin' Donald!

If that makes you shudder, here's what you can do:

You Can Help The Enlightened Voter Move This Guy

From Here

To Here

Here's How You Can Do It.

Research by The Enlightened Voter staff in 2014 and 2016 dramatically demonstrated voter-education is a key to significantly increasing voter engagement and turnout in an election. (See the results here.)

Voter-education is a critically important addition to traditional door-knocking and phone-calling tools in getting out the vote! (See our thoughts in our video here.)

Our vision in 2018 is to expand our reach to the 25% of the lowest turnout precincts. These are precincts that don't have volunteers to knock on doors or to make phone calls.

OK, You've read the important part. Read on only if you're curious about our history and motives. We won't be hurt if you stop here.

Our Story

“Dan Isaacson’s publication, The Enlightened Voter, is a highly informative civic education newsletter that has illustrated the importance of civics education in increasing voter turnout. The newsletter includes original material as well as contributions by nationally-known columnists. It is extremely well written and researched. At a time when Florida is one of America’s most important swing states, educating the electorate can be instrumental in the outcome of elections. All voters in Palm Beach County ought to read The Enlightened Voter.” —Tom Gabor, Ph.D. Author,Confronting Gun Violence in America.

Our Concerns

In 2016 only about 50% of registered voters actually voted. Non-voting Democrats elected Donald Trump! The establishment's presently used Get-Out-The-Vote methods are not enough! Just saying "We have to fight harder!" is not enough!

Knocking on doors - The best way to motivate Floridians to vote is face-to-face (knocking on their door). BUT volunteers are hard to find, door-knocking only reaches about 18% of a volunteer’s list, and door-knockers only attempt to reach their neighbors a brief three times a year at most. This is not enough!

Phone - Similarly it is hard to reach potential voters by phone. Only about 25% are reached that way. This is not enough!

The Problem - About 75% of potential voters are hard to reach, hard to educate, hard to move to the polls at election time. Our research has shown that we are reaching them. We are moving them.

Skeptics say that no one reads any more. "No one" they say, "will read an 18-times-a-year publication." Our research in 2014 made me chuckle. It showed that voters who received The Enlightened Voter 18 times a year [and who supposedly "didn't read it"] turned out to vote at twice the rate as in the 23 neighboring precincts whose voters did not receive The Enlightened Voter [and who definitely did not read it!].

For 10 years we mostly published a print edition of The Enlightened Voter. Like most printed news media, daily newspapers have closed, cut back on printing, or have gone all-digital in Tampa, Denver, Detroit, Seattle, New Orleans, and many other big cities.We find we must also rely mostly on digital publication in 2018.

If we don't get sufficient funding, we will have to stop publication before the crucial elections of 2018!

What We Do:

"We Go Where No One Has Gone Before." -- StarTrek

We go where no one has thought to go before. Our 24-issues each year -- 21st-century-approach-publication is the only one of its kind in the United States!

We produce a bi-monthly voter education publication, The Enlightened Voter, for Democrats and Independent voters. We have proven that educating voters, rather than nagging voters through phone calls, robocalls, endless TV ads, and so on, produces a significantly higher voter turnout at election time. [For a report on the positive results of our work in 2014, see our Research Results Video.].

We envision a local version of The Enlightened Voter delivered to every progressive voter's inbox in America!

Our Mission in 2018:

To research a way to deliver a copy of our educational publication, The Enl, The Enlightened Voter, to every Democratic and Independent eligible voter in Palm Beach County, Florida at least 24-times before the November 2018 election.

To replicate our successful 2014 research in Precinct 4178 in a 1,000-registered-voter, low-performing, Palm Beach county precinct.To do that, we must harvest email addresses by mail solicitation early in 2018 -- a significant cost.

To support local political offices with the information their constituents need around election time to save them time in answering the same questions over and over again.We need research and website development staff.

To continue to support the needs of our Hispanic and Creole neighbors with language-specific publications.Translations cost $2,000 a month.

To encourage each of Florida’s 67 counties to consider publishing a county-specific version of The Enlightened Voter. Staff time has to be allocated.

To see more people turning out to vote!

Demonstration:

By successfully replicating our 2014 study, we can demonstrate to the political establishment that 20th century methods used to get voters to the polls is outdated. It relies on:

prohibitively-expensive media

difficult-to-find volunteer door-knockers and phone-callers

can not reach into gated communities and the 50% of communities where volunteers cannot be found

can be more efficiently and less-expensively replaced with a free, bi-monthly voter-information journal.

We go where no one has thought to go before. Our 24-times-a-year-21st-century-approach publication, The Enlightened Voter, is the only one of its kind in the United States.

Because readers of The Enlightened Voter have proven to vote significantly better than non-readers, in the long run we envision a local version of The Enlightened Voter delivered to every progressive voter’s inbox in America.

46.9% of Americans Didn't Vote in 2016!

Those non-voters elected Lyin' Donald!

If that makes you shudder, here's what you can do:

You Can Help The Enlightened Voter Move This Guy

From Here

To Here

Here's How You Can Do It.

Research by The Enlightened Voter staff in 2014 and 2016 dramatically demonstrated voter-education is a key to significantly increasing voter engagement and turnout in an election. (See the results here.)

Voter-education is a critically important addition to traditional door-knocking and phone-calling tools in getting out the vote! (See our thoughts in our video here.)

Our vision in 2018 is to expand our reach to the 25% of the lowest turnout precincts. These are precincts that don't have volunteers to knock on doors or to make phone calls.

OK, You've read the important part. Read on only if you're curious about our history and motives. We won't be hurt if you stop here.

Our Story

“Dan Isaacson’s publication, The Enlightened Voter, is a highly informative civic education newsletter that has illustrated the importance of civics education in increasing voter turnout. The newsletter includes original material as well as contributions by nationally-known columnists. It is extremely well written and researched. At a time when Florida is one of America’s most important swing states, educating the electorate can be instrumental in the outcome of elections. All voters in Palm Beach County ought to read The Enlightened Voter.” —Tom Gabor, Ph.D. Author,Confronting Gun Violence in America.

Our Concerns

In 2016 only about 50% of registered voters actually voted. Non-voting Democrats elected Donald Trump! The establishment's presently used Get-Out-The-Vote methods are not enough! Just saying "We have to fight harder!" is not enough!

Knocking on doors - The best way to motivate Floridians to vote is face-to-face (knocking on their door). BUT volunteers are hard to find, door-knocking only reaches about 18% of a volunteer’s list, and door-knockers only attempt to reach their neighbors a brief three times a year at most. This is not enough!

Phone - Similarly it is hard to reach potential voters by phone. Only about 25% are reached that way. This is not enough!

The Problem - About 75% of potential voters are hard to reach, hard to educate, hard to move to the polls at election time. Our research has shown that we are reaching them. We are moving them.

Skeptics say that no one reads any more. "No one" they say, "will read an 18-times-a-year publication." Our research in 2014 made me chuckle. It showed that voters who received The Enlightened Voter 18 times a year [and who supposedly "didn't read it"] turned out to vote at twice the rate as in the 23 neighboring precincts whose voters did not receive The Enlightened Voter [and who definitely did not read it!].

For 10 years we mostly published a print edition of The Enlightened Voter. Like most printed news media, daily newspapers have closed, cut back on printing, or have gone all-digital in Tampa, Denver, Detroit, Seattle, New Orleans, and many other big cities.We find we must also rely mostly on digital publication in 2018.

If we don't get sufficient funding, we will have to stop publication before the crucial elections of 2018!

What We Do:

"We Go Where No One Has Gone Before." -- StarTrek

We go where no one has thought to go before. Our 24-issues each year -- 21st-century-approach-publication is the only one of its kind in the United States!

We produce a bi-monthly voter education publication, The Enlightened Voter, for Democrats and Independent voters. We have proven that educating voters, rather than nagging voters through phone calls, robocalls, endless TV ads, and so on, produces a significantly higher voter turnout at election time. [For a report on the positive results of our work in 2014, see our Research Results Video.].

We envision a local version of The Enlightened Voter delivered to every progressive voter's inbox in America!

Our Mission in 2018:

To research a way to deliver a copy of our educational publication, The Enl, The Enlightened Voter, to every Democratic and Independent eligible voter in Palm Beach County, Florida at least 24-times before the November 2018 election.

To replicate our successful 2014 research in Precinct 4178 in a 1,000-registered-voter, low-performing, Palm Beach county precinct.To do that, we must harvest email addresses by mail solicitation early in 2018 -- a significant cost.

To support local political offices with the information their constituents need around election time to save them time in answering the same questions over and over again.We need research and website development staff.

To continue to support the needs of our Hispanic and Creole neighbors with language-specific publications.Translations cost $2,000 a month.

To encourage each of Florida’s 67 counties to consider publishing a county-specific version of The Enlightened Voter. Staff time has to be allocated.

To see more people turning out to vote!

Demonstration:

By successfully replicating our 2014 study, we can demonstrate to the political establishment that 20th century methods used to get voters to the polls is outdated. It relies on:

prohibitively-expensive media

difficult-to-find volunteer door-knockers and phone-callers

can not reach into gated communities and the 50% of communities where volunteers cannot be found

can be more efficiently and less-expensively replaced with a free, bi-monthly voter-information journal.

In Palm Beach County, FL, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a lot -- 389,620 to 261,045 (as of 8/8/17)! We don't want to keep electing Republicans by not voting. If we all vote, we can make our county and state change for the better!

In Palm Beach County, FL, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a lot -- 389,620 to 261,045 (as of 8/8/17)! We don't want to keep electing Republicans by not voting. If we all vote, we can make our county and state change for the better!

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